So Many Olympic Exertions

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Anelise Chen

Verlag:

Kaya Press

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: N26RDR4

EAN: 9781885030351

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Do, 06.08.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 32.–

Beschreibung

Blending elements of memoir and sports writing, Anelise Chen's debut novel is an experimental work that perhaps most resembles what the ancient Greeks called hypomnemata, or 'notes to the self,' in the form of observations, reminders and self-exhortations. Taken together, these notes constitute a personal handbook on "how to live"-or perhaps more urgently "why to live," a question the narrator, graduate student Athena Chen, desperately needs answering. When Chen hears news that her brilliant friend from college has committed suicide, she is thrown into a fugue of fear and doubt. Through anecdotes and close readings of moments in the sometimes harrowing world of sports, the novel questions the validity of our current narratives of succes

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Anelise Chen

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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